If a person exists?

[Craig Russell]

Hi,

I'm allowing users of project/icla to pretend to be another user for the 
purpose of testing.

I have this code that doesn't quite work:

  def getUser(userName)
    user = ASF::Person.find(userName)
    mockName = params['mock']
    if mockName != '' and ASF::Person.find(mockName).id == mockName
      # if mock is set, set member to mock value
      return mockName
    else
     return userName
    end
  end

What I'm trying to do is to see if the mocked user actually exists.

The code returns the mock name even if the mock name does not exist.

What is the correct test for user exists?

Thanks,

Craig

Craig L Russell
Secretary, Apache Software Foundation
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